GAZA, (PIC)
New exclusive footage obtained by Al Jazeera on Sunday showed the Israeli occupation army using detained Palestinian civilians as human shields during the fighting in the Gaza Strip.
The video clips show forcing one of the detainees to enter a tunnel after tying him with a rope and attaching a camera to his body, in addition to forcing the detainees to wear military uniforms while using them as human shields.
The footage also shows the use of a wounded detainee as a human shield and forcing him to enter destroyed houses in Gaza, where the bodies of martyrs are seen lying on the ground at the entrance of the house.
Al Jazeera had previously obtained footage showing the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) using one of the detainees as a human shield in one of the streets of the Shujaiiya neighborhood east of Gaza City.
In the West Bank, video clips showed the IOF tying a wounded detainee to the front of an Israeli military vehicle during the invasion of the city of Jenin, out of fear of the resistance fighters’ bullets.
International humanitarian law and the 1949 Geneva Convention prohibit armies from using civilians as human shields, and the International Criminal Court considers it a war crime.
Israel continues its aggression on the Gaza Strip for the ninth consecutive month, which has so far claimed no less than 37,834 martyrs and injured 86,000 – mostly women and children – in addition to massive destruction of vital facilities, residential buildings amidst a worsening famine in the besieged enclave.
Israel continues its aggression despite two UN Security Council resolutions to stop it immediately, and orders from the International Court of Justice to end the invasion of Rafah and take measures to prevent genocide and improve the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.
